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Lin Chen; Charles Perfetti – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Learning new words is fundamental in both first and second-language reading. There are, however, divided opinions on the best instructional approaches. Two widely used approaches across languages are whole-word focus and word-constituent focus. The appropriateness of each approach has varied historically, even within a single language (e.g., the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Dhaene, Sara; Woumans, Evy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Previous research identified that studying texts in a second language (L2) as opposed to the first (L1) results in substantially weaker recall. We hypothesized that use of advance organizers (AOs) might attenuate this L2 recall cost by supporting L2 users in the construction of more solid memory representations. One hundred Dutch-English…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Recall (Psychology)
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Hristo Kyuchukov; Jill de Villiers; Yanwan Zhu; Iris Zhong – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
The paper presents the first comprehensive look at the language development of Romani-speaking children from resource-poor Roma communities in several European countries. 250 participants aged 3- to 10-years participated. The experimental tasks assess knowledge in eight key areas of grammar and morphology, including fast mapping of novel items.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Minority Groups, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
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Sun, Jing; Zhao, Weiqi; Pae, Hye K. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Chinese coordinative compound words are common and unique in inter-character semantic and orthographic relationships. This study explored the inter-character orthographic similarity effects on the recognition of transparent two-morpheme coordinative compound words. Seventy-two native Chinese readers participated in a lexical decision task. The…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Processes, Morphemes
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Jue Wang; Xin Jiang; Baoguo Chen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The age at which people acquire a word influences word recognition, known as the age of acquisition (AoA) effect. In the first language (L1), AoA effects are widely found in various languages and experimental tasks. Arbitrary Mapping Hypothesis proposes that AoA effects reflect the loss of network plasticity during the learning of mappings between…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Thothathiri, Malathi; Braiuca, Maria C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Previous studies using artificial languages suggest that sentence production can be guided by verb-specific as well as verb-general statistics present in the language input. Here we investigated whether the statistical properties of ongoing input in the speakers' native language systematically affected their sentence production. Three experiments…
Descriptors: Verbs, Cues, Semantics, Cognitive Mapping
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Weber, Kirsten; Christiansen, Morten H.; Indefrey, Peter; Hagoort, Peter – Language Learning, 2019
New linguistic information must be integrated into our existing language system. Using a novel experimental task that incorporates a syntactic priming paradigm into artificial language learning, we investigated how new grammatical regularities and words are learned. This innovation allowed us to control the language input the learner received,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Priming
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Paquette-Smith, Melissa; Cooper, Angela; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Infants struggle to understand familiar words spoken in unfamiliar accents. Here, we examine whether accent exposure facilitates accent-specific adaptation. Two types of pre-exposure were examined: video-based (i.e., listening to pre-recorded stories; Experiment 1) and live interaction (reading books with an experimenter; Experiments 2 and 3).…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Processing, Pronunciation, Mandarin Chinese
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Shoaib, Amber; Wang, Tianlin; Hay, Jessica F.; Lany, Jill – Cognitive Science, 2018
Infants are sensitive to statistical regularities (i.e., transitional probabilities, or TPs) relevant to segmenting words in fluent speech. However, there is debate about whether tracking TPs results in representations of possible words. Infants show preferential learning of sequences with high TPs (HTPs) as object labels relative to those with…
Descriptors: Infants, Italian, English, Native Language
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Kida, Shusaku; Barcroft, Joe – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The type of processing-resource allocation (TOPRA) model predicts that increasing one type of processing (semantic, structural, or mapping oriented) can decrease other types of processing and their learning counterparts. This study examined how semantic and structural tasks affect the mapping component of second language (L2) vocabulary learning.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Japanese, English (Second Language)
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Gu, Yan; Zheng, Yeqiu; Swerts, Marc – Cognitive Science, 2019
The "temporal-focus hypothesis" claims that whether people conceptualize the past or the future as in front of them depends on their cultural attitudes toward time; such conceptualizations can be independent from the space-time metaphors expressed through language. In this paper, we study how Chinese people conceptualize time on the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Asians, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Kim, Jeong-eun; Cho, Yejin; Cho, Youngsun; Hong, Yeonjung; Kim, Seohyun; Nam, Hosung – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This study examines the effects of asymmetrical mappings of L2 sounds to L1 sounds on real-time processing of L2 phonology. L1-Korean participants completed a self-paced listening (SPL) task paired with a picture verification (PV) task, in which an English sentence was presented word by word along with a picture that matched or mismatched the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Korean
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MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Glaspey, Amy M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Teachers and clinicians may struggle to provide early identification to support multilingual children's language development. Dynamic assessments are a promising approach to identify and support children's language development. Aims: We developed and studied a novel word learning task that is dynamic and language neutral. It makes use…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, French, Kindergarten, Transfer of Training
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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Onischik, Elena; Dragoy, Olga – Second Language Research, 2022
This study examines the role of cross-linguistic transfer versus general processing strategy in two groups of heritage speakers (n = 28 per group) with the same heritage language -- Russian -- and typologically different dominant languages: English and Estonian. A group of homeland Russian speakers (n = 36) is tested to provide baseline…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Finno Ugric Languages, Transfer of Training
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Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Before infants produce words, they can discriminate changes in motion event components such as manner (how an action is performed) and path (trajectory of an action). Individual differences in nonlinguistic event categorization are related to children's later verb comprehension (Konishi, Stahl, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek, 2016). We asked: (a) Do…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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